Frustrated trying to be portable

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Feb17.203337.20569 at uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> clgreen at nsslsun.gcn.uoknor.edu (Cliff Green) writes:
>Anyway, am I missing something, or is the state of ANSI C compilers still
>in a formative stage?

It would be more accurate to say that the availability of such compilers
is still limited.

No compiler should be advertised as conforming to the (ANSI/ISO) C standard
unless it fully meets the requirements for a conforming implementation
specified in the standard.  There are two kinds of conforming implementation:
hosted and standalone.  The one you are interested in would be a conforming
hosted implementation.  Certainly such an implementation would have to
provide <stdlib.h>, remove(), etc.